EXCLUSIVE: How Three Northwestern States Plan To Borrow over N240 Billion A WikkiTimes review of select Northwestern states 2024 budget has shown that three states plan to borrow N240 billion in 2024. The states reviewed for this report are; Katsina, Kano and Kaduna. Review shows that the Loans/borrowings receipt for the 2024 approved budget stands at N150.067 billion. Kano plans to borrow N25.065 billion while Katsina has a planned N65.83 billion for loans and borrowings in 2024. For Katsina state, domestic loans are expected to amount to N15 billion while international loans/borrowings will amount to N50 billion. Katsina state expects…
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Peter Obi Speaks On Dumping Labour Party Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election has denied that he is planning to leave the party. In March, a former spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, said Obi was planning to leave the Labour Party and join a former Kaduna Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, in the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Bwala, who made the allegation in a post on his X handle, said Obi was planning to leave the Labour Party following the current crisis in the party with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)…
BREAKING: FG Declares Public Holidays The Federal Government has declared Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9 and 10, 2024, as public holidays to mark the Eid-el-Fitr celebration. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday by the ministry’s permanent secretary, Aishetu Ndayako. The minister congratulated all Muslims for the successful completion of the fasting in the holy month of Ramadan. Tunji-Ojo called on them to imbibe and practise the virtues that entail kindness, love, tolerance, peace, good neighbourliness, and compassion, as exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him). The statement read, “The Federal…
Fresh Trouble Looms Over Secret Recording Of Conversations With Nnamdi Kanu By DSS Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the lead counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has raised the alarm over secret recordings of his meetings and conversations with his client by the officials of the Department of State Services (DSS). Ejimakor cited an example of how the DSS once mistakenly filed in court, a photograph of him and Kanu taken during one of his meetings with the IPOB leader. He said he and his client always whisper in fear because they don’t know…
RAYC Blasts Wike For Appointing Only Kinsmen, Allies in FCT The Reformed Arewa Youth Coalition (RAYC) has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, of undermining the principle of federal character in his appointments. The group, at a press conference, on Friday in Abuja, alleged that Wike is running the FCT like a lord of the manor where everyone deferred to his whims and caprices. In his address, the President of the group, Comrade Attahiru Musa lamented that the appointments so far have been lopsided. “Wike has displayed a despicable trend evident in his choice of appointments.…
Alhaja Faints On The Roadside, Rejects Malt Drink, Says “I’m Fasting, I Can’t Drink, Eat During Ramadan” “In such situations Madan Islam clearly states that you break your fast. Please drink malt and even add pounded yam and egusi soup. The Lord is your strength” Muhammad Shaban said A Muslim woman, Alhaja, sparked a conversation as she fainted on the roadside while refusing to drink malt from a stranger, claiming she couldn’t consume anything while fasting during Ramadan. This incident was captured in a video captioned: “She did not drink malt because she is fasting.” Alhaja faints on roadside, rejects…
BREAKING: Corps Member Die In Auto Crash Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Corps Member Die In Auto Crash A yet-to-be identified member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), serving in Ogun State lost his life in a lone accident which occurred Saturday morning along the Sango Ota – Abeokuta Expressway. The Corps member could only be identified with the NYSC cap placed in his vehicle after the accident which occurred around 06: 55 am at the Ago Adura axis of Itori town in the Ewekoro Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the deceased corps…
PHOTO: Tension As Nigerian Navy Personnel Beat Man To Death Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Nigerian Navy Personnel Beat Man To Death The family of Richard Onumegbu, a civilian staff of the Federal Ministry of Defence, Nigerian Navy Base, Ojo, Lagos State, has raised the alarm, demanding justice for their son reportedly beaten to death by four Navy officers. Narrating how Richard was killed, a family source in a video on social media said he was killed by the four Naval officers contracted by a young woman who was fond of bullying him and calling him a “dog boy”.…
Impeachment: Governor Obaseki Gets New Deputy Gov Barring any last-minute change of mind by Governor Godwin Obaseki, a former member of Edo House of Assembly (1999 – 2003), Pascal Ugbomhe, has been tipped to replace the state’s Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, till November 12, 2024, when his second term will end. Ugbomhe, also an Etsako man as Shaibu, is a frontline member of the Dan Orbih-led Legacy Coalition in Edo chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with his choice being to get the support of the party’s National Vice Chairman, Southsouth (Orbih), and his teeming supporters, ahead of the…
Fresh Crisis Rocks PDP As Atiku, Wike Fight Over NEC Meeting Ahead of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scheduled for April 18, there is palpable tension over the battle for the control of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) by the camps of the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, THISDAY’s investigation has revealed. The tension emanated from revelations that Wike will remain in the PDP and work for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 presidential election, while Atiku will contest…